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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
News organizations must address the deep-seated gender inequality that's at the root of the widespread sexual misconduct at media companies — So, now that the dam has burst on sexual misconduct at media companies, we're good, right? — Don't believe that for a moment.
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Clio Chang / Splinter:
The open sexual harassment by The New Republic's Leon Wieseltier, literary editor for over 30 years, raises questions about accountability
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Peter Kafka / Recode:
Twitter suspends former Trump adviser Roger Stone after he sent crude, personal, and vaguely threatening tweets to some CNN anchors and contributors — Stone went after Lemon last night. — What can you get away with typing on Twitter? It's a line that moves over time.
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Tom Kludt / CNNMoney:
Bill O'Reilly threatens to sue former New Jersey lawmaker for $5M over “defamatory” Facebook post about his ex's experiences with O'Reilly — Fox gave O'Reilly contract after $32 million settlement — Bill O'Reilly is threatening legal action against a former New Jersey lawmaker …
New York Times:
Sources: Washington Free Beacon initially hired Fusion GPS, the firm that produced Steele dossier on Trump, starting in October 2015 and stopping in May 2016 — WASHINGTON — The Washington Free Beacon, a conservative website funded by a major Republican donor, was the first to hire the firm …
Tom Grubisich / Street Fight:
Q&A with Howard Owens, publisher of The Batavian in upstate NY, on building an app, boosting subscriptions, and futility of recreating a newspaper model online — Howard Owens has done local news at both ends of the publishing spectrum. He was director of digital publishing …
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Michael Zelenko / The Verge:
Survey of US sentiment toward big tech firms including Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Twitter, and others on trust, privacy, news accuracy, more — Illustrations by Garret Beard and William Joel — This year marked a sea change in our attitude toward tech's largest players — and not for the better.
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New York Times:
Human rights groups say false information spread on Facebook, which is dominant in Myanmar, is stoking violence against the Rohingya ethnic group — Myanmar's government has barred Ashin Wirathu, an ultranationalist Buddhist monk, from public preaching for the past year …
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@lvandenassum, @malachybrowne, @kenroth, @pernillet and @juliacarriew
Ian Burrell / The Drum:
Interview with David Pemsel, CEO of Guardian Media Group, on how The Guardian grew memberships from 75K to 300K in a year and encouraged 300K one-off donations — The strategy to rescue the Guardian from financial oblivion has attained a landmark position by increasing its revenue from readers …
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@sarah_s_sheehan and @eventmechanics
Madison Malone Kircher / New York Magazine:
The “Shitty Media Men” list is no longer a tool for helping women but being spread to instigate fights, attack liberal media, and settle scores — The “shitty media men” list wasn't made to be a bludgeon. When the anonymous, crowdsourced Google spreadsheet was first created earlier …
Rob Goldman / Facebook:
Facebook will start testing new ad transparency features in Canada in Nov., in US and elsewhere by summer, including an option to see all ads a page is running — When it comes to advertising on Facebook, people should be able to tell who the advertiser is and see the ads they're running, especially for political ads.
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Freia Nahser / Global Editors Network:
Interview with Peter Bale, Wikitribune's editor, on how the crowdsourced news org will work at launch next week: 4-8 pieces a day, all revenue from subs, no ads — Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, believes that the news industry is broken and he reckons he has a way to fix it.
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Kristen Hare / Poynter:
Democracy Fund gives Local Independent Online News Publishers $250K grant to assist 10 publishers develop sustainable business models — Chicago - Local Independent Online News Publishers announced a grant of $250,000 that will go toward helping local newsrooms find sustainable business …
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